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We can tell that this is at least a skate because it has
more of that kind of fleshy tail, whereas a ray is going to have just sort of
the long, skinny, bony tail.

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Watch lead, I’ve got a question. Those little brown dots on
it, the really small ones. Do you know, are those chromatophores that have the
ability to change its color?

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That’s a great question, video.

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So Ken Sulak has joined us and he says that there are a lot
of fish that have chromatophores, which can be expanded or contracted to change
color and patterns.

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The kind of spottedness gives them what’s kind of known as
disruptive camouflage.

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So it makes them a little bit more difficult to see,
especially because there’s not much light down here, if any.